Voyager is the third book in the Outlander series and better, in my opinion, than the second book, Dragonfly i**spoiler alert** ***LOTS OF SPOILERS***

Voyager is the third book in the Outlander series and better, in my opinion, than the second book, Dragonfly in Amber. Jamie and Clare are reunited after 20 years apart and it's so wonderful to be back to reading about them and learning everything that has happened to them during their separation. The book starts out in the 1960's with Claire preparing herself to return to Jamie whom she, until now, believed to have died in Culloden and with Jamie living in a cave near Lallybroch for 7 years. It then takes us to Jamie's 4 years in Ardsmuir prison, his years spent working as a groom at Helwater and then finally to his becoming a printer and smuggler in Edinburgh where he finally reunites with Claire. Their adventures together lead them to the West Indies with much time being spent on the ship, the Artemis.

It's been a few months since I read the first two books and I had somehow forgotten just how fabulously Diana Gabaldon writes, weaving heartwrenching scenes together with moments that make me burst out laughing.

Jamie, as always, has the best lines. A couple of his lines that actually made me laugh out loud so far in this book:

- "I was afraid I'd lost hold altogether and pissed myself, but it's alright. I've just sat on the alepot"

- "Brianna?" he said, frowning at the pictures. "What an awful name for a wee lassie!"

- "Well, you're speaking to the only man in Scotland who has a terrible cockstand at sight of a plucked chicken"

- "I dinna need to worry about ye? Is that what ye said? Christ. I leave you safely in bed waiting for your breakfast, and not an hour later, I find ye downstairs in your shift, clutching a corpse to your bosom."

Classic Jamie.

There are so many new characters to meet in this book including Young Ian, Marsali, Willie and Mr. Willoughby. Equally wonderful are the returning characters from the previous books such as Jenny, Geillis, Laoghaire, John Grey, Brianna and Roger.

A couple of things were left unanswered by this book but perhaps will all be answered in time. How did Jamie become Captain of the British soldiers? What happened to those soldiers? Where did the money go that Claire sewed into her dress before her time-travel?

All in all, it was a fantastic book and one I'd highly recommend!...more

**spoiler alert** This is my post from TNBBC group-read. It's got major spoilers in it so don't read it if you don't want to know what happens.

August**spoiler alert** This is my post from TNBBC group-read. It's got major spoilers in it so don't read it if you don't want to know what happens.

August 2009

I just finished the book and I loved it or most of it anyway. I'm going to have to skim through the book again later on tonight and re-read a couple of parts just to be sure that I truly captured it all.

I also cringed a bit when reading about the first time that Clare had sex with Henry. It was her 18th birthday and he was 30-something. It seemed weird, like he was much too old for her. That being said, I was okay with Henry meeting Clare at 6 and the relationship that ensued there. I didn't feel that he did anything inappropriate or told Clare too much about the future. I also was a bit weirded out by the scene when there are 2 teenage Henry's are naked in bed together and his father walks in on them/him/whatever. I couldn't help feeling that it was one boy experimenting with another boy, rather than Henry being just Henry and being a boy who experiments with himself. Also, while some, even most, of the book was beautifully written, I didn't enjoy that the author felt the need to throw in words like (I apologize for my language but I'm quoting) cunt, cock and fuck. I mean, I'm not a prude or anything but I felt that the words were out of place and just inappropriate for the overall tone of the novel.

Oh and I agree with the above posts… Gomez was such a creep! I don't think that the novel would have suffered at all(might have even been better) if he had never existed as a character. He and Clarisse seemed to be characters who were just taking up space and I didn't care about them at all, except for when Henry was out for coffee with Clarisse and she was upset about Gomez being in love with Clare, etc. At that point, I felt for Clarisse but it was the first and only time I did.

That being said, I still gave it 5 stars. I couldn't put it down. I really liked the time-travel aspect the characters (again with the exception of Gomez and Clarisse). When Henry sees 10-year-old Alba, I was beside myself. I was so thrilled to read about Alba and broken-hearted to find out that Henry would die. Throughout the remainder of the book, I knew he would die but I hoped that he wouldn't somehow. However, if he hadn't died I would have hated the book because it would have gone against everything that the author had said throughout about him not having the power to change the future/past.

More than anything, I loved the romance and the idea that their love and devotion could conquer all, spanning decades and overcoming all obstacles, even death. To me it read like a perfect fairytale, albeit with a lot of twists :) ...more

I don't know what happened... I expected to love this book and I didn't. I liked reading about Jamie and Claire again but it just didn't live up to whI don't know what happened... I expected to love this book and I didn't. I liked reading about Jamie and Claire again but it just didn't live up to what I had hoped for. I'm a big fan of graphic novels and a big fan of Outlander. I think I've just come to the conclusion that when I love a book, I should only read it in book format. The same goes the other way - I have no desire to read a novel based on comic characters. I do want to get back to the Outlander novels now, so that's something :)...more